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Sunday, March 31, 2024

Ekphrasis for Cormac

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Blue

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From this journal on October 15, 2023

"Can you make it any more complicated?"

Ocean's 13

One approach . . .

Saturday, March 30, 2024

The Hat Tip

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"… the essence of what has come to be known as film noir …." —

Welcome to Scotland.

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Related viewing —

"… the essence of what has come to be known as film noir …." —

Related material — Plaid  in this journal.

King Solomon’s Minecraft

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:34 am

See as well Aesthetics in Academia.

Schicksalstag 2003

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Meanwhile . . .

The above post is from the date of the Hollywood premiere of
"Looney Tunes: Back in Action." See also tonight's previous post
and . . .

"Directed by Joe Dante" . . . See also "The Harrowing."

Friday, March 29, 2024

Tribute from a Cartoon Graveyard: Easter Bunny

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:47 pm

Related reading:  Blue Monkey.

Hollywood Death on Maniac Monday

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See Maniac Monday in this journal and .

Related reading:  "Where credit is due."

Annals of Brainy Verbosity

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:22 pm

"Don’t be distracted by the numbers of people who
haven’t heard of ChatGPT yet—the real bellwethers,
particularly among well-educated or younger people,
are in those business numbers. The recent leap in
work use might indicate that those who are already
augmenting their work with the brainy verbosity of LLMs
are advocating it to colleagues."

Steven Levy at Wired.com today

AI at Noon

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:00 pm

https://www.wired.com/story/
plaintext-proof-the-ai-boom-is-people-tapping-chatgpt-at-work/

"The sample was taken between February 7 and 11 of this year."

See also, in this  journal,

Hollywood Easter Egg

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:35 am

The Wilde Abyss: And the Oscar Goes To…

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Math for Tricksters: Deck Transformation

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:13 am

From the above Baez essay

"And when the hero arrives, there should be
a little flourish of trumpets, like:

And now we come to a key player:
the group of deck transformations."

This remark and Baez's statement that

"Ideally the tricks I’m suggesting here
will be almost invisible…."

suggest a non-mathematical "deck transformation"
that some will prefer —

In the March 21 Netflix series "3 Body Problem,"
the deck of the ship Judgment Day is transformed
in a spectacular manner by an invisible  trick.

Great Caesar’s Ghost!

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Thursday, March 28, 2024

An Old Sci-Fi Question

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:04 am

Arrival at CERN —

For my own arrival at CERN, see Zenodo in this journal.

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

The Unboxing

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Above: Episode 2 of "3 Body Problem" on Netflix. This suggests
a review of the phrase "Set the controls for the heart of the sun."

That phrase appeared here in a post of Wednesday, March 6.

Related material from Boxing Day, 2016 —

"Who knows, really" — Perhaps James Joyce.

“Manifest” as Magick Verb

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From an Instagram ad today —

See also this meaning of "manifest" in Sphere

novel by Michael Crichton, film by Barry Levinson.

Related material —

"Program or be programmed."
— A saying by the author of the above graphic novel.

The Triple-Threat Problem

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:00 am

Generation

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From a New York Times  art obituary yesterday by Roberta Smith

"Although frequently called a Minimalist, he came of age
with the slightly younger Post-Minimalist generation
and helped define its concerns."

And then there is the Post-it Minimalist generation . . .

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Pour les petites

Filed under: General — m759 @ 5:07 pm

"This is by way of a pep talk, mes petites . . ."

Musical and theatrical accompaniment . . .

Musical:  Valse pour les petites , reportedly recorded on March 2, 2019;

Theatrical:  A Log24 post from that same date, Schoolgirls for Galois.
 

Kindergarten Report on Fröbel’s Third Gift:
“Behaves well under group action.”

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 8:02 am

From the above:  "electronically published on October 6. 2023."

See as well that date in other Log24 posts tagged The Prize Shining.

A co-author of the book reviewed has appeared here previously.

A Solar Country

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:00 am

See the title in this journal.

Monday, March 25, 2024

College of the Desert  Revisited

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B-B-Biennale 2024: Picture at 11!

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:00 pm

The above solar art is . . .

(By John Baez, cousin of Joan)

(The Baez art was also displayed here  on Saturday, March 23, 2024 —
the second day of the 2024 Biennale in the Desert Sun  article.)

MANIAC Monday

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:00 am

Meta Physics: Coupled Resonance

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:42 am

Sunday, March 24, 2024

Archimedean* Art

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*

Religious Art:  Scene of the Articulation*

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* See Atwood on tricksters.

 

The Clooney Omega

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From a post of May 13, 2015 —

Saturday, March 23, 2024

Annals of Deceptive Fiction: Life of Pi

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:58 am

The image of a mathematician reading Life of Pi  in today's 8:36 AM ET post
suggests some further reading, not  about a fictional tiger —

As for the tiger . . .

"Liars prosper."

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